GRE Word List
PANACEA
cure-all; remedy for all diseases
The meaning of the word panacea is cure-all; remedy for all diseases.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pliant | flexible; easily influenced |
| bacchanal | noisy party with a lot of drinking |
| reprise | musical repetition; repeating of a piece of music; repeat performance; recurrent action; Ex. reprise in the finale; Ex. constant reprises |
| semblance | outward appearance; guise; Ex. We called in the troops to bring a/some semblance of order to the city. |
| ligneous | like wood |
| irrefutable | indisputable; incontrovertible; undeniable |
| extort | wring from; get money by threats, etc.; obtain by force or threats; CF. extortionate: exorbitant |
| tundra | rolling treeless plain in Siberia and arctic North America |
| remit | transmit (money) in payment; free someone from a debt or punishment |
| kaleidoscope | tube in which patterns made by the reflection in mirrors of colored pieces of glass, etc. produce interesting symmetrical effects; series of changing events; Ex. kaleidoscope of European history; CF. beautiful |